Windshield



April 12 1927.

M. R. HULL WINDSHIELD Filed Oct. 2l. -1925 gjm/venin@ Patented Apr. 12, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEV R. HULL, OF CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO REX MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY, OF CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

WINDSHIELD.

Application led October 21, 1925.

My said invention relates to a windshield for automobiles and it is an object of the same to provine convenient means for ventilatinpl the interior and also to provide convenient means for affording a clear forward view for occupants of the car. This, as will be understood, is often of great iinportancc to the driver, especially at night or in inclement weather. It will be understood that if only one of the windshield sections is open while all the windows and doors are closed very little draft will enter through the windshield opening` by reason of the movement of the car and weather' will be substantially excluded. For this purpose the windshield is provided with laterally slidable sections.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a rear elevation shield, and

Figure a section on line ure 1.

In the drawings reference character indicates the frame of the windshield which may be of any conventional or desirable character and which has a circumferential notch or groove 11 in which the sections indicated at 12 and 13 may slide relatively to the stationary section 14.

Each of the sections 12 and 13 extends into the circumferential groove 11 at its outer edge and abuts against a strip let of wood or other suitable material which with a second strip 15 is held in place by a strip of sheet metal 16, ld-shaped in cross section, it being' understood that the details of the frame may be varied without departing from my invention. strip of metal 1T is bent about the inner e ige of the sections 12 and of the wind- 2-2 of Fic'- 13 to protect the saine. said strip being also' rolled on the inner side to provide a hand grip 18 which may oe grasped by the occupants for sliding the corresponding sections baci; and forth whereby the windshield may Serial No. 63,987.

be fully opened at either side or partially opened at both sides. The stationary section 1% is so positioned as to bear against the outer face of the strips 17 and form a dust and water-tight joint.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in my device without departing from the spirit of the invention and therefore I do not limit myself to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification but only as indicated in the appended claims. i

I-Iaving thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A windshield for motor vehicles comprising a frame, a fixed section and a laterally slidable section in said frame, and a sheet metal strip bent over the free edge of said slidable section and forming a closure between the sections at one side of the shield and at its other side being rolled to form a longitudinal hand-grip, substantially as set forth.

2. A. windshield comprising a frame having a rectangular opening with a groove in the inner edge of the frame about said opening, a fixed intermediate windshield section having its upper and lower extremities supported in the grooves at the upper and lower sides of the frame, a pair of side sections each normally supported on three sides in the frame, said side section being slidable into parallel relation with the intermediate section, a strip about the forward unsupported edge of each of said slide-ble sections adapted to protect the saine and for closing the opening between the fixed and movable section, said strip having one edge rolled over to forni a hand-grip, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Connersville, Indiana this 15th day of Uctober, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-tive.

MATTHEIV R. HULL. 

